How to Enable Developers to Deliver Secure Codes

By Achim D. Brucker.

Security testing is an important part of any security development life-cycle (SDLC) and, thus, should be a part of any secure software development life-cycle. Still, security testing is often understood by an activity done by security testers in the time between "end of development" and "offering the product to customers".

Learning from traditional testing that the fixing of bugs is the more costly the later it is done in development, we believe that security testing should be integrated into the daily development activities.

Based on the SDLC of a large software vendor, we will present the benefits of early security testing and discuss what is necessary to achieve a "security testing as development activity" approach.

Please cite this work as follows:
A. D. Brucker, “How to enable developers to deliver secure codes,” presented at the Checkmarx webinar: Meet the expert, May 21, 2015. Author copy: http://logicalhacking.com/publications/talk-brucker-developer-awareness-2017/

BibTeX
@Unpublished{ talk:brucker:developer-awareness:2017,
  date              = {2015-05-21},
  title             = {How to Enable Developers to Deliver Secure Codes},
  author            = {Achim D. Brucker},
  eventtitle        = {Checkmarx Webinar: Meet the Expert},
  abstract          = {Security testing is an important part of any security
                       development life-cycle (SDLC) and, thus, should be a part of
                       any secure software development life-cycle. Still, security
                       testing is often understood by an activity done by security
                       testers in the time between "end of development" and "offering
                       the product to customers".
                       
                       Learning from traditional testing that the fixing of bugs is
                       the more costly the later it is done in development, we
                       believe that security testing should be integrated into the
                       daily development activities.
                       
                       Based on the SDLC of a large software vendor, we will present
                       the benefits of early security testing and discuss what is
                       necessary to achieve a "security testing as development
                       activity" approach.},
  slideshare        = {key/b19VBO9NwUfeTF},
  video             = {https://info.checkmarx.com/resources/webinars/security-testing-for-developers-on-demand},
  slideshare_width  = {595},
  slideshare_height = {485},
  areas             = {security, software},
  note              = {Author copy: \url{http://logicalhacking.com/publications/talk-brucker-developer-awareness-2017/}},
}